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Quiet, composite shell for comfortable riding with the Scorpion EXO-500
With an enhanced ventilation system, the Scorpion EXO-500 helmet is comfortable for sport and street riding. The fit of the Scorpion EXO-500 helmet is great and has such features as a hinge that pulls the shield against a weather sealed gasket for better weatherproofing. Standard from the factory with a no-fog faceshield, the Scorpion EXO-500 Ardent Green helmet is the clear choice. It's fully adjustable with a removable liner and cheek pads that can be inflated for a custom fit. With a hassle-free shield that can be removed in seconds, it's no wonder that riders prefer the Scorpion EXO-500 helmet.
- ECE 22.05/DOT Certified.
- Polycarbonate Composite Shell - Quiet, aero-tuned design for wind-tunnel tested comfort. EPS-lined chin bar for additional protection.
- AirFit permits a rider to personalize helmet fit through air adjustable cheek pads.
- SpeedView an internal retractable light smoke sun visor that eases eye strain instantly in varying light conditions without changing face shields, plus an EverClear coating on both sides for a fog free ride.
- SpeedShift quick-change shield system (patent pending): Easy, secure tool-less faceshield changes in ten seconds or less.
- EverClear no-fog faceshield: Optically-correct shield with state-of-the art fog-free technology and anti-scratch hardened coating.
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Reviewer: Jeff Hug (Saint Charles, MO) 12.5.2013
Nice helmet, but loud in upright position.
This helmet is definitely a big bang for your buck (pros and cons below). I exchanged this helmet for the exo-1100 as the 500 was too loud and had too much buffeting for the upright position. The exchange was painless, but I did have to pay return shipping. This is understandable though and I don't have a problem with this. By the time they received my exchange they were out of the exo-1100 I wanted to exchange it for, but they actually let me choose a more expensive 1100 (matte black) instead. The matte black is awesome. It's not true matte, but I like it even better than a true matte. Exo-500 Pros: - Great price for a great helmet. - Good looking helmet. - Great airflow. - Internal sun visor (comes with light smoke, so you may want to buy dark smoke with the helmet). - Inflatable cheek pads for custom fit (not a gimmick, it really helps if between sizes). - I like that you can use the "lock" for a cracked position. - Not too heavy. - Good chin curtain. Exo-500 Cons: - Visor is said to be fog free. While it's definitely fog free, it doesn't disperse the moisture good enough to keep a lot of condensation blurring your view. In my opinion this is worse than fog. I will try a fog city application. - If riding in an upright position this helmet is very loud and has a lot of buffeting even with the vents closed. - Internal sun visor is a bit of a pain to change. It's easy with a second person to help, but extremely difficult by yourself. - I have difficulty with the speed shift visor. I can get the shield off easily, but when putting the shield back on it's difficult for me to get the second side locked on (regardless of which side I put on first). This just may take some practice though. - Shield lock doesn't actually lock the shield. Just makes it more difficult to raise. Shouldn't cause a problem though and the shield seems to sit against the gasket tightly. My ride: 2006 Suzuki Boulevard C90 with a windshield.
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You've likely never heard of Ed Daniels. His photo hasn't graced the cover of Climbing magazine, and he doesn't have a long list of first ascents. But, for more than 4 decades Ed has been a steadfast advocate for the sport he loves, and he has shared his passion with hundreds of beginner climbers.
Ed, who recently celebrated his 87th birthday, has been rock climbing for 45 years. During that time he has instructed scores of beginner climbers through classes put on by the Berkshire Chapter of the Appalachian Mountain Club (AMC). In a few weeks, Ed will welcome a new group to the Introduction to Rock Climbing course just as he did for the first time in the early 1970s.
Ed has done nearly all of his rock climbing with the AMC, beginning in 1967 when he first scaled a cliff face in a class offered by the Berkshire Chapter.
"After that one session, man, I was hooked, so that's why I've been doing it ever since," Ed said.
Ed's not kidding when he says he's been climbing ever since. The night before I spoke with him on the phone, he paid a visit to the local climbing gym, which he typically does every couple of weeks throughout the winter. During the summer, Ed will climb outdoors once or twice a week at crags located a short drive from his Easthampton, Mass., home. And, to this day, Ed still instructs the intro AMC climbing course, something he began doing just a few years after his first climb in 1967.
"It's always fun to see a person fall in love with the same thing that you're doing and enjoying," he said. "I guess that's probably why I like to [instruct]."
Fellow AMC instructor, Bill Kopell, first met Ed in the early 1980s.
"He is very good and very patient with people learning to climb," Bill said about Ed. "I think that the honesty about his passion for [climbing] and his appreciation for it, I think that's a large part of what makes him a good instructor. His ability to go through and explain the basic concepts and make sure that he's reaching people helps."
One area in particular that Ed has been known to emphasize with beginners is that you shouldn't use your knees while climbing. It's very tempting to put a knee down on the rock when you reach a ledge, but this can often put you in an awkward position that's difficult to get out of, or worse, leave you with an injured knee. Ed's frequent reminders about not using knees resonated with the climbers and he soon found himself with a nickname: Ed "No Knees."
To really drive the point home, Ed "No Knees" came up with a fine to be handed out to offenders.
"I devised a little penalty for it," he said. "I said, 'If I catch you using your knees, you owe me a beer.'"
Well, sure enough, one day a package from an AMC climber showed up on Ed's doorstep. Inside there was a can of beer with a note that read, "You know that hard climb down at Ragged Mountain that I always have trouble with? Well I was doing it the other day and I used my knee and I figured I owed you a beer." Ed got a real kick out of that.
Ed has long been a lover of the outdoors and he credits his parents with instilling that in him as a child in the 1930s. His parents were busy raising a family in Brooklyn, N.Y., but they always made time to pack up the kids and head upstate to go camping in the Adirondack Mountains. Warm summer days spent exploring the forested peaks and pristine lakes of northern New York set Ed on a path that would lead to a passion for all things outdoors, most notably rock climbing.
But before Ed ever learned to place a hex or mantle onto a ledge, he enjoyed exploring the hiking trails of western Massachusetts. Sometimes while hiking he would come across a rock cliff and gaze up wondering what it would be like to climb up it. Without the proper equipment or training, Ed wisely stayed on the ground. That is, until 1967 when the AMC offered a climbing course and Ed signed up.
Learning to climb in the 1960s was a bit different than it is today. Back then, harnesses were hard to come by and people typically wore ordinary hiking boots to scale a rock wall. And, you know those fancy cams that help you keep a cool head when your knees are shaking and your forearms are pumped? Well it would be another decade until Ray Jardine invented the first spring-loaded cams.
"The only things you had were carabiners," Ed said. "There were no belay devices. We did body belays. There were very few harnesses so you tied in with a bowline on a coil around your waist and you rappelled with a Dulfersitz, or the 'hot seat' as they call it, and that was it."
The Dulfersitz is a good thing to know in case you ever find yourself at the top of a climb without a rappel device. But nowadays, with padded harnesses and modern rappel devices, it is not commonly used at the crag, and it's easy to understand why. There is nothing comfortable about descending a rope that runs between your legs, around your hip, up over a shoulder and across the back of your neck.
"If you do a 'hot seat' rappel over an overhang and are hanging in thin air for any length of time, it gets very painful," Ed said. "We had to do that in our beginner's class … It wasn't any fun."
Ed started lead climbing in 1974, right around the time that pitons were falling out of favor in the climbing community because of the damage they cause to rock. With spring-loaded cams not yet having been invented, his protection options were limited.
"At that time, the only lead protecting equipment were nuts and hexes," Ed said. "So that's what I started to lead with. You've got to be creative to protect yourself with those."
Although Ed recently stopped lead climbing, he does have half a dozen cams on his rack and he would use them in desperate situations. But, as an old-school traditional climber, he's sure to emphasize his preference for passive protection.
"I've always been a fan of Tri-Cams, mainly because they're a hell of a lot cheaper than [cams]," he said.
As a longtime resident of western Massachusetts, Ed has done the majority of his climbing at crags located around the northeastern United States. The AMC conducts many of its training sessions at Chapel Ledge in Ashfield, Mass., and there is a weekly night of climbing throughout the summer that is often held at the Farley Ledges in Erving, Mass. Ed has explored other areas, including Whitehorse Ledge in North Conway, N.H., Rogers Rock that rises out of Lake George in upstate New York, and Acadia National Park in Maine, to name a few.
With many climbing areas located a short drive from his Easthampton, Mass., home, Ed doesn't need to travel far to get his climbing fix. However, in 1977 he made a journey across the country to the climbing mecca of Yosemite National Park in California. Ed was primarily there for sightseeing, but as he gazed up at the massive rock walls he thought to himself, "By golly, I wasn't going to be in Yosemite and not do a climb."
Ed wandered up to Camp 4, the famed hangout for Yosemite climbers, and started asking around if anybody wanted to join him on a climb. He soon found a willing partner and they ascended a moderate route near Yosemite Falls. Ed climbed just that one route, but noting the legendary reputation of Yosemite and all the historic feats that have taken place there, he said, "At least I can say I climbed in Yosemite."
Of all the places he has climbed in the past 45 years, Ed's favorite is the famed Shawangunk Mountains (the Gunks), located outside New Paltz, N.Y.
"The climbs are so nice," he said. "They're so good that you can climb them time after time after time and not get tired of them."
Ed first visited the Gunks in the early 1970s and has been back many times. The AMC Berkshire Chapter schedules weekend trips there throughout the summer to introduce climbers to seconding and leading.
Bill Kopell fondly recalls doing a climb with Ed at the Gunks called Three Pines.
"I was leading the climb and there were several very committing moves where you're doing a traverse across open air," he said. "That was quite memorable for me in terms of my climbing. Committing to doing that move with Ed belaying me, I didn't worry about the belay at all."
When Ed thinks back on his climbing career, there are a few routes that really stand out in his mind. Limelight, Madam Grunnebaum's Wulst and High Exposure, 3 of the mega-classic climbs at the Gunks, are at the top of his list. As Ed described the routes in detail, it occurred to me that despite there being more than 5 decades separating us in age, the conversation was just like one I could have been having with my climbing partner. We were 2 climbers sharing memories and exchanging beta, united by a sport we love.
Describing the spooky crux move on High Exposure, Ed said, "… you're coming out from underneath, sort of like a cave, and you've got to put your foot on a little tiny nubbin and stand on it and it's like a half inch so you can stand on it. But you have to step out onto that hanging on behind you with an undercling and reach up above you and there's a bucket. But when you're doing that you're looking straight down at 200 feet of air which makes it very scary. But once you get that bucket then your hand holds and foot holds are good … It's such a nice move."
Ed's excitement for climbing has not dwindled since that day he first tied into a rope 45 years ago. When I asked Ed what it is that keeps him drawn to rock climbing after all these years, he put it into terms that only a genuine climber could.
"It's still fun. That's all," Ed said. "I tell the guys in the beginner's class, 'Look, if you find out that you're not having fun then quit. Go find something else that you're having fun at …You do it because you like it, not because you're trying to prove something.'"
Now those are good words to live by.
Photos top to bottom: Ed enjoys a cold beverage after a day of climbing at the Gunks, photo by Jim Van Natta; Ed teaches proper rappelling technique at Chapel Ledge, photo by Cindy Rzonca; Ed climbs at Chapel Ledge, photo by Cindy Rzonca; Ed climbs City Lights at the Gunks, photo by Jim Van Natta. Illustration of the Dulfersitz technique is from Mountaineering: The Freedom of the Hills - 8th Edition, courtesy of The Mountaineers Books.

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#26 2013-04-14 15:49:36
Re: 5 Pirates Solution is wrong - here is the real solution
I agree, there was no name calling, other than what was implied by the statement. I guess I found it easy to infer what he was implying. Perhaps I misinterpreted his meaning.
#27 2013-04-14 16:30:45
Re: 5 Pirates Solution is wrong - here is the real solution
You have once again changed the definition of rational for the puzzle's sake. Offering one gold in Collin's position is not a rational means of saving one's life when confronted with bloodthirsty pirates.
Because you have changed the definition of greed for your own sake again. The definition of greed should not change because we are in the context of a puzzle.
Again, the puzzle set the stage, and the pirates are described as bloodthirsty. You have chosen to ignore what has been stated in the puzzle. If the pirates are not bloodthirsty, then explain why Collin must offer Eddie 1 Gold? Without the pirates being bloodthirsty, then there in no reason for Collin to offer even 1 Gold to Eddie. Collin should be able to keep all 100 for himself by your logic.
Arrogance has nothing to do with it. I wanted the opportunity to debate the solution with like minded individuals. The title was chosen to stimulate intelligent debate. If you see me as arrogant, and are offended, then you are in control of your own destiny. You can choose to ignore my post and move on. Yet you stay here, because it seems you want to start a fight of some sort.
#28 2013-04-14 17:02:02
Re: 5 Pirates Solution is wrong - here is the real solution
I have changed nothing. You are the one who is having the obsession about Colins death wish which has nothing to do with the puzzle. Why isnt it rational for Eddie to accept 1 gold when otherwise he would have no gold? Not only is it rational of Eddie, it is rational of Colin too. Colin would like to keep all 100 gold but he cant hell be outvoted and thrown overboard. However, by offering 1 gold to Eddie, he can ensure he wont be outvoted and thus save his life.
Change what definition? Greedy here simply means taking as much as one can get even if it means taking only 1 gold as opposed to nothing.
Only they are more greedy than bloodthirsty whereas you seem hellbent on thinking its the other way round.
The title gives the impression that you think you are right and everybody else is wrong. That is not the way to stimulate intelligent debate!
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#29 2013-04-14 18:32:14
Re: 5 Pirates Solution is wrong - here is the real solution
Here is what you refuse to consider, but it is right there:
#30 2013-04-14 18:39:38
Re: 5 Pirates Solution is wrong - here is the real solution
In mathematics, you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
I have the result, but I do not yet know how to get it.
All physicists, and a good many quite respectable mathematicians are contemptuous about proof.
#31 2013-04-14 19:46:17
Re: 5 Pirates Solution is wrong - here is the real solution
Probably best for this thread to be closed before it gets out of hand.
"The physicists defer only to mathematicians, and the mathematicians defer only to God ..." - Leon M. Lederman
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Just finished Week 10, so two weeks left. I have been holding steady at 25 pounds lost, which I am happy with, but I want to lose 15 more. I doubt that I can lose 7.5 pounds a week! I am really not where I want to be (was hoping for some type of abs!) but, at 40, maybe I was expecting to much. I will keep plugging away.
However, about week 6, it hit me that I am only eating 5 times a day. I get up extremely early and work long days, so six meals is just to difficult for me to get in. Anyone think that I need to find a way to get in #6?
Typical day:
Get up at 1:00 am
Eat at 2:30-3:00 am----4 Eggs (1 w/yoke, 3 without), cup of frozen blueberries 20 oz of water, 8 oz coffee
lots of water, all day
6:00 am---cottage cheese/yogurt (both fat-free)
9:00 can of tuna, cup of brown rice, spinach
12:00 protein shake
3:00 pm workout
I will either drink a protein shake within 30 minutes of weight training or chicken, brown rice, salad one hour after cardio.
That normally does it, as I try not to eat a couple of hours before I go to bed.
Any thoughts?
WEll, I think it's important. because the book says it's important. I think if you can handle a bit of cottage cheese/yogurt mix - maybe 30 minutes before bed is good. That's usually my sixth meal - and I do it just within half an hour of going to bed. I eat - then brush, floss, do the whole face thing...and that gives me a few mins to read something inspiration (often it is about a BFL champion) then off to bed. Don't know if this helps or not. You might consider reducing the brown rice to half a cup. (^_^)...and use simply lemon juice as your salad dressing (^_^)...Sounds like you're doing really well - looking forward to the final report!
You've done great! 25 pounds in 10 weeks is pretty amazing, try to remember how far you've already come too, not just where you want to end up. It may take a few more weeks of exercise and eating right to get to your final goal, and that's completely ok!
Question: Are you hungry before you go to bed? If so, then you should definitely add the 6th meal. I finished 2 challenges eating 5 meals a day because I just wasn't hungry again after dinner and had great results. Assuming you're a female, you can get away with this but the more muscle you build, the more energy needed to sustain it, so it really depends on where you are physically.
I am not ordinarily hungry before I go to bed. Maybe one a week but that is it. I have started eating a half serving of cottage cheese/yogurt (I always seem to have that much left in the bottom).
And for the record, I am a male...guess I ought to get that profile done, eh? :-)
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According to James de Lemos, MD, of the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, Texas, and colleagues, among obese adults, visceral fat was associated with more than a twofold increased risk of developing incident diabetes (odds ratio 2.42, 95% CI 1.59 to 3.68).
In addition, developing either condition was also associated with markers of insulin resistance including elevated fructosamine levels (OR 1.95, 95% CI 1.43 to 2.67) and elevated fasting blood glucose (OR 1.88, 95% CI 1.38 to 2.56).
But there were no associations with general markers of obesity, including body mass index (BMI) or total body fat.
The researchers wrote, "Our study may have implications for understanding differences between metabolically healthy and pathologic obesity."
The risk of developing type 2 diabetes is diverse among obese patients, and factors that discriminate risk of developing the condition haven't been well studied.
So the researchers looked at associations between prediabetes and diabetes and baseline adipose tissue distribution, adipokines, lipids, biomarkers of insulin resistance, as well as family history of diabetes and factors at follow-up in "a multiethnic cohort of obese adults [ˇÜ30 kg/m2] with extensive cardiovascular, metabolic, and adipose tissue phenotyping" enrolled in the Dallas Heart Study from 2000 to 2002.
A total of 732 participants received multiple surveys, laboratory testing, and imaging studies. Fasting blood glucose was sampled in a subgroup of 512 participants at baseline.
Data was collected on body surface area, waist circumference, lower body fat, visceral and subcutaneous abdominal fat, liver fat, as well as levels of leptin, adiponectin, high-sensitivity C-reactive protein, fructosamine, low-density lipoprotein, high density lipoprotein, and very low density lipoprotein. The researchers used electron-beam CT to measure coronary artery calcium.
In participants without diabetes at baseline, a number of factors were significantly and independently associated with incident diabetes in obese adults:
There were no associations for BMI, total body fat, or abdominal subcutaneous fat, they reported. Additionally, among participants with normal fasting blood glucose at baseline, factors significantly associated with incident prediabetes and diabetes were:
Again, there was no association with measures of general adiposity, they reported.
The authors concluded that "a dysfunctional adiposity phenotype, characterized by excess visceral fat and biomarkers of insulin resistance," was independently associated with development of prediabetes and diabetes, and said their findings suggest that "clinically measurable markers of adipose tissue distribution and insulin resistance may be useful in prediabetes and diabetes risk discrimination among obese individuals."
The researchers noted that the number of diabetes events were modest, and time to diabetes or prediabetes onset was not measured. They also said the study was limited by a lack of generalizability and missing glucose tolerance testing and measures of average blood glucose in the Dallas cohort.
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Steve Jobs as his neighbors see himSeptember 1, 2011: 6:13 AM ET
A glimpse into his private life from a writer who lives down the street
Here's portrait of Apple's (AAPL) famous CEO that I suspect is unlike any you've read over the past week.
It was posted Monday by his Palo Alto neighbor, Lisen Stromberg, on AOL's Patch and on her personal blog.
Her kicker:
While Newsweek and the Wall Street Journal and CNET continue to drone on about the impact of the Steve Jobs era, I won't be pondering the MacBook Air I write on or the iPhone I talk on. I will think of the day I saw him at his son's high school graduation. There Steve stood, tears streaming down his cheeks, his smile wide and proud, as his son received his diploma and walked on into his own bright future leaving behind a good man and a good father who can be sure of the rightness of this, perhaps his most important legacy of all.
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Magical realism at its finest. Beautiful, haunting, slightly disturbing.
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami (translated from the Japanese by Jay Rubin) is simply a tour-de-force in fiction at the dawn of the new millennium. The novel follows one man's search, first for his cat, and then for his wife, in a labyrinth of Tokyo's multi-faceted world filled with unusual, but believable, characters. It is a masterfully written odyssey across time, space, and Japanese culture. Like an ocean tide it pushes the reader forward in a mystical world embracing solitude and the unknown then pulls one back with grim reminders of the devastating (ripple) effects of war and carnage. In a word it is perfiction.
So this is a really hard book to tell people about, mainly because I wouldn't know where to start or even what to say. The main character Mr Okada is a straight forward simple guy, after quitting his job to think about what he'd like to do next he enjoys his days relaxing, until his cat goes missing. This triggers off a string of events that lead to the most bizarre consequences. I really enjoyed the individual back ground of each character, especially that or Mr Honda and Lieutenant Mamiya, the war stories were great, gruesome but fascinating. I don't think i've ever actually thought about the atrocities that would occur during war, this book defiantly helped that to hit home. I also found Mr Okada very likable and my favorite was probably May as deranged as she is. I don't think people who are looking for a solid plot or even a coherent story will enjoy this book, the ending isn't very tangible, in fact reading this book is like trying to grasp at water, its mesmerizing and eerie and weird and you cant help but want to read on and on. Then you get to the end and feel like you need to think it over, look for a secret plot or a hidden message... maybe sit in the bottom of a dry well to think ;)
Im really glad i read this book, it wasn't at all what i thought it was going to be though it will certainly be a while before i can get over it and pick up another Murakimi title
This was the second Murakami book I read, the first being Kafka on the Shore. I enjoyed in both of them the deliberate, controlled language, the deep and layered mysteries driving the story, and the historical background that informed part of the narrative (much more so in this one). I think Murakami creates some very compelling images and has a particular talent for creating an atmosphere of strangeness as viewed by protagonists that seem quite normal (normal to the point of being being more detatched that the more extreme characters around them).
This is all mere description, I realize, and that's in part because one needs to know what exactly there is to enjoy in being presented mysteries without getting the satisfaction of solutions. It can be a frustrating experience, but of course so can being given unsatisfying answers merely to satisfy the compact between author and reader that "all will be revealed in the end." Some things fall into place, or at least become less murky. Other things are left to their own strange, cockeyed logic, and one has to accept that. After all, if one is to get a glimpse into a world truly not one's own, the view does not come with a guidebook and a friendly ambassador. Otherwise you might as well be taking a bus trip of a foreign country. In the end, those who people the underworlds of Murakami's vision are *not* just like us. They can't be, and thus we can't expect to know exactly why things are as they are there.
That said, this book deserves the highest possible marks, but I have withheld that for two reasons. One, the mysteries in The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle are so complete that even the half-explanations one should accept seem less than fair at times. Very late in the book, it seems the mysteries are only deepening, and it can become tiring over the course of a long novel to be given so few clues. Second, however, is the fact that the book in the third part begins to feel like its become overlong. So much time is spent in the early part of the book creating the strange atmosphere and following the often mundane daily tasks of the protagonist that the story felt like it was losing momentum even as some of the most interesting and important parts were being revealed. While the first two hundred pages pulled me along almost without my noticing, the last two hundred presented a challenge that I had to settle down to and sprint my way through.
All in all, I will remember this book for a long time to come, and I will no doubt go on to read more of Murakami's books. But they don't seem to be the kind of novels one can read one after the other. So far I'm working in one a year, and that seems the right pace.
Was absolutely charmed the first half, but the lack of resolution left me not completely satisfied.
By the book's midway point, the novelist-juggler has tossed so many balls into the air that he inevitably misses a few on the way down. Visionary artists aren't always neat: who reads Kafka for his tight construction? In ''The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle'' Murakami has written a bold and generous book, and one that would have lost a great deal by being tidied up.
Mr. Murakami seems to have tried to write a book with the esthetic heft and vision of, say, Don DeLillo's ''Underworld'' or Salman Rushdie's ''The Moor's Last Sigh,'' he is only intermittently successful. ''Wind-Up Bird'' has some powerful scenes of antic comedy and some shattering scenes of historical power, but such moments do not add up to a satisfying, fully fashioned novel. In trying to depict a fragmented, chaotic and ultimately unknowable world, Mr. Murakami has written a fragmentary and chaotic book.
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Amazon.com Amazon.com Review (ISBN 0679775439, Paperback)Bad things come in threes for Toru Okada. He loses his job, his cat disappears, and then his wife fails to return from work. His search for his wife (and his cat) introduces him to a bizarre collection of characters, including two psychic sisters, a possibly unbalanced teenager, an old soldier who witnessed the massacres on the Chinese mainland at the beginning of the Second World War, and a very shady politician.
Haruki Murakami is a master of subtly disturbing prose. Mundane events throb with menace, while the bizarre is accepted without comment. Meaning always seems to be just out of reach, for the reader as well as for the characters, yet one is drawn inexorably into a mystery that may have no solution. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle is an extended meditation on themes that appear throughout Murakami's earlier work. The tropes of popular culture, movies, music, detective stories, combine to create a work that explores both the surface and the hidden depths of Japanese society at the end of the 20th century.
If it were possible to isolate one theme in The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, that theme would be responsibility. The atrocities committed by the Japanese army in China keep rising to the surface like a repressed memory, and Toru Okada himself is compelled by events to take responsibility for his actions and struggle with his essentially passive nature. If Toru is supposed to be a Japanese Everyman, steeped as he is in Western popular culture and ignorant of the secret history of his own nation, this novel paints a bleak picture. Like the winding up of the titular bird, Murakami slowly twists the gossamer threads of his story into something of considerable weight. --Simon Leake
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Having quit his job, Toru Okada is enjoying a pleasant stint as a "house husband", listening to music and arranging the dry cleaning and doing the cooking - until his cat goes missing, his wife becomes distant and begins acting strangely, and he starts meeting enigmatic people with fantastic life stories. They involve him in a world of psychics, shared dreams, out-of-body experiences, and shaman-like powers, and tell him stories from Japan's war in Manchuria, about espionage on the border with Mongolia, the battle of Nomonhan, the killing of the animals in Hsin-ching's zoo, and the fate of Japanese prisoners-of-war in the Soviet camps in Siberia.… (more)
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The Creighton women's basketball team found itself in a familiar place at halftime after buidling a 36-22 lead over Minnesota.
The Bluejays had a 38-23 halftime lead over the Golden Gophers last season in Minneapolis. But Creighton ended up coughing up a 20-point advantage that day on the way to an 88-81 loss in double-overtime.
Sarah Nelson made sure the lead stuck this time, scoring 22 points to help the Jays upend Minnesota 63-52 in front of a D.J. Sokol Arena crowd of 802.
"It was kind of one of those things like it was d�j� vu, like we were sitting in the same place last year," said Nelson, who also had seven rebounds and seven assists. "And we all were kind of feeling really good about it, and then it totally flipped on us, and we were just not going to let that happen again."
In order for that to not happen again, the Jays would have to contain preseason All-Big Ten first team guard Rachel Banham, who scorched Creighton for 39 points last season.
This time around, the Bluejays limited Banham to 14 points.
"We really spoke how we weren't going to let Banham go off on us, and that was our main focus," Nelson said.
The 6-foot Nelson also had a tall order defensively in guarding 6-5 freshman center Amanda Zahui B., who scored 29 points in her debut against Charlotte on Wednesday.
"We talked a lot about how they could hurt us inside just with their size and things like that," Nelson said.
Zahui was forced to the bench early when she picked up her second foul with 13:28 left in the first half and was held to 14 points.
The Bluejays had plenty of help from Minnesota as the Gophers committed 22 turnovers compared to just seven CU miscues.
Creighton coach Jim Flanery said the Jays' defensive pressure added to the Gopher confusion on offense and helped create those turnovers.
"Minnesota looked really good on film, and I thought we did a lot of things defensively to make them look more human," Flanery said.
"Just how we really collapsed on the post in the first half and made them turnover-prone, and that was the difference."
Minnesota coach Pam Borton said the 15 first-half turnovers by the Gophers and the loss of Zahui to foul trouble were too much for her team to overcome.
"I thought we had a lot of self-inflicted wounds in the first half with some of our passing," Borton said.
"Obviously with Amanda going on the bench for most of the first half really hurt as well and put a lot more pressure on our guards."
Minnesota native Marissa Janning and Alexis Akin-Otiko each scored 10 points to help the Bluejays.
The Jays have a quick turnaround as they will face Kansas at 4 p.m. Sunday in Lawrence before returning home to take on Houston next Saturday.
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The rest of that part of the drain system.
First off please excuse my lack of knowledge in regards to plumbing. I've done small jobs here and there, and have helped friends in the past, but I don't claim to know a lot about plumbing.
Long story short... I had some foundation work done to the house. I was expecting problems to arise because of this. The doors needs to be rehung, and small cracks appeared in the plastic. No problem.
Basically what looked to be a small leak under the house, is a much bigger problem. The drain for the washer had a small leak on a fitting, but had a much larger problem where it meets up with the main drain of the house.
I also noticed the whole plumbing job on the washer is wrong so it will need to be completely redone. There is no trap, vent, etc.
Here is the pipe after I cut it in half. I was amazed at the buildup inside. Is this caused by no vent, or maybe the wrong angle of the drain?
Where this galvanized pipe (1' 1/2"?) meets the old iron drain. As you can see the problem doesn't get any better. When I checked this area the galvanized pipe could move around inside in the iron pipe.
A few questions:
1) I'm planning to redo all the lines for the washer with PVC. How do I properly connect PVC with the iron drain? The supply lines will stay galvanized.
2) Can the trap for the drain be under the house, or should it be in the wall cavity?
3) What should the angle of the drain pipe be for maximum efficiency? I'm wondering if this may not have had a good enough angle. If not what would cause this amount of buildup? Could the lack of a vent have caused this?
Any help would be appreciated.
The rest of that part of the drain system.
You have a major problem on your hands, all that cast iron that I can see should be replaced; whoever put it in should be rolling over is his grave!
The lines are kinked and traped, no wonder they didn't drain properly and allowed that mess to build up.
Cut the cast until you get to a straight piece, then you can connect pvc with Fernco or Mission couplings, keep in mind all of that pipe needs to be replaced, water lines also if they are galv.
The wash machine trap has to be near the washer, you can't put it below the floor, it also needs a 18-30in. stand pipe out of the trap, plus a vent, have fun,
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The p-trap needs to be on the same floor as the washer, not below the floor.
Below the hub you can see the lead we pulled out,
in the hub is the new 2" pipe with Fernco insert.
You also have 2" hubs.
Many times when I pull out old pipe, it looks like that.
1/4" per foot grade or 2% is what we use.
This one fits inside a hub, and the pipe is pushed inside.
I taper the end of the pipe, and lube it with liquid soap.
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Wow, this forum is awesome. I didn't expect any replies for at least a week!
Yeah I figured I would need to fix this nightmare situation. The problem is I can only cut so much unless I want to also redo the drain to the sink. You can't see it from this picture but there is also a drain line behind it that runs to the sink.
I plan to do it all correctly but at the moment I need to be able to use the washing machine. I figured that I would correct all the problems in the laundry room, and down to the drain for now. Then tackle the rest.
I'll look into the Fernco couplings.
2. I was reading another thread in this forum and I think I'll try and get these fernco inserts.
"Fernco donut part numbers for 2" plastic DWV pipe into 2" cast iron hub:
P22U-205: for service duty cast iron (marked "SV")
P22UX-205: for extra heavy cast iron (marked "XH")"
I need to crawl back under the house to check which cast iron I have. Should this marking be easy to find?
3. I need to install a vent pipe. Should this always be vented through the roof, or are you able to vent it under the eve?
I'm debating whether to add the Fernco to the cat iron end in the photo, or maybe try to remove it and use the one that appears to have some of the caulking coming out. I plan to replace it all but at this point I need to get it up and running. I still need to remodel the bathroom so I'll replace this part of the system at that time.
How difficult is it to remove that small portion of the cast iron? I would imagine it is not going to come off easily.
So Home Depot wasn't much help (as usual).
One person suggested that using an insert is a bad idea, The other had never heard of fernco making something like this and I couldn't find it myself. Maybe my store doesn't carry it.
Anyway, he suggest I should use this:
Seems like it would work but wouldn't this void it make become a problem?
That coupling is NOT designed to fit OVER a cast iron hub. Using it would be a *********/handyman procedure. AND since it is merely a rubber coupling it is not supposed to be used INSIDE a house ANYWHERE.
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